Epoxy containing acylated terpenoid amines

ABSTRACT

New terpenoid compounds and use thereof for influencing the development of insects and representatives of the order Acarina are disclosed. The compounds correspond to the formula   WHEREIN Z1 and Z2 are each hydrogen or together form a carbon carbon bond or an oxygen bridge, R1 is C2-C4 alkenyl or acyl, R2 is C1-C4 alkyl or C2-C4 alkenyl, and R3 and R4 are each methyl or ethyl.

United States Patent Karrer May 20, 1975 [54] EPOXY CONTAINING ACYLATED Primary Examincr--Norma S. Milestone TERPENOID AMINES Attorney, Agent, or FirmHarry Falber; Frederick H. [75] inventor: Friedrich Karrer, Basel, Switzerland Rabm Q l l d [73] Assignee. Ciba Gelgy AG, Basel, Swltzer an [57] ABSTRACT [22] Filed: Oct. 17, 1973 [2]] App! NO 407 111 New terpenoid compounds and use thereof for influencing the development of insects and representatives Related US. Application Data of the order Acarina are disclosed. The compounds [62] Division of Ser. No. 155,602, June 22, 1971, Pat. No. correspond to the formula R 4 R 3 H 3 Z2 N /R] H C 1 2 [30] Foreign Application Priority Data June 26, 1970 Switzerland 9706 wherein June 26, 1970 Switzerland 14890 21 and Z are each hydrogen or together form a [52] US. Cl 260/348 A; 260/240 H; 260/348 R; carbon carbon bond or an oxygen bridge,

424/278 R is C C alkenyl or acyl, [51] Int. Cl. C07d 1/00; C07d l/O6 R is C C alkyl or C 4 alkenyl, and [58] Field of Search 260/348 A R and R are each methyl or ethyl.

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3 Claims, No Drawings 3,429,970 2/1969 Ruegg et al. 424/333 3,453,362 7/1969 Cruickshank 424/84 1 2 EPOXY CONTAINING ACYLATED TERPENOID acid, aygdibl-omopropionic acid, butyric acid, AMINES a-bromobutyric acid, isobutyric acid, acrylic acid, This application is a divisi of (:Qpcnding li methacrylic acid, crotonic acid, cyclopropanecarboxyti n Sen N 155,602 fil d J 22 1971 now [)3 lie acid, cyclobutanecarboxylic acid and substituted or Pat. No. 3,786,097, 5 unsubstituted benzoic acids.

This invention relates to new terpenoid compounds Of particular importance are compounds of the forandtheir use in influencing the development of insects mulae:

' CH CH CH 3 3\ 3 I /CHO IV CH 3 CH -CHCH c N v CH CH CH cno 3 II C 21 CH CH and representatives of the order Acarina. The manufacture of the compounds of Formula I According to the present invent on the e are protakes place in known fashion by the reaction of a mixvided compounds of the general formula I ture of geometrical isomers of the Formula R R CH 4 Z 3 3 \l R I H C 1 4 4 Z a R CH 3 2 K/\/\ W l VI wherein wherein Hal is halogen, preferably bromine or chlorine, Z and Z are each hydrogen or together form a carand Z and Z are hydrogen or together are a carbon bon carbon bond or an oxygen bridge, carbon bond, and R and R have the meaning given in R is C C alkenyl or acyl, Formula I, with a primary or secondary amine of the R is C C alkyl or C C alkenyl, and R and R Formula are each methyl or ethyl. i The C C alkyl or C C alkenyl groups which R and R may represent can be straight or branched RN chain, and substituted or unsubstituted. Examples of VII R such groups are, inter alia, methyl, ethyl, propyl, ISO- 2 propyl, n-, i-, secondaryor tertiarybutyl, allyl, chlorallyl, crotyl, methallyl, etc.

The acyl groups which R, may represent can be subwherein R and R have the meaning as given for Forstituted or unsubstituted and saturated or unsaturated, ule 1 With the exception of y gr p preferably and are derived mostly from lower carboxylic acids, with cooling in an inert solvent medium, and thereafter particularly mono carboxylic acids. Representatives of if desired epoxidation with 1 mole of a selective epoXisuch are for example formic acid, acetic acid, mono-, dizing agent such as a peracid, in an inert solvent medi-, and trichloro acetic acid, mono-, and dibromo dium such as, for example, a halogenated hydrocarbon. acetic acid, trifluoro acetic acid, propionic acid, 5 By the term peracid, it is intended to mean primara-chloropropionic acid, a,a-dichloropropionic acid, ily low peralkane acids with one to six carbon atoms a,B-dichloropropionic acid, a,a-dibromopropionic such as for example peracetic acid, as well as aromatic peracids such as perbenzoic acid, and monoperphthalic Such as ASPidiOIMS hedeme, Lecanium hesperidium, acid. m-Chlorobenzoic acid is especially preferred. Pseudococcus maritimus; Thysanoptere (thrips) such as For epoxidizing non acylated amines (Z and Z Herciothrips femoralis, and bugs such as the beet-bug forming together a carbon carbon bond in Formula I) (Piesma quadratum) or the bed bugs (Climex Lectulathe amino group is protected during the process by salt 5 rius); butterfly grubs such as Plutella maculipennis, Lyformation with an acid before the oxidative influence mantria dispar and grubs of the genus Prodenia', beetles of the epoxidizing agent. Acids used in this connection such as Colorad beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata); can be mineral or organic acids such as formic acid, ha- Orthoptera such as the house cricket (Acheta domestilogenated aliphatic carboxylic acids, particularly triflucus); Termites such as Reticulitermes; l-lymenoptera, oroacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid. such as ants; flies such as the fruit fly Drosophila mela- For manufacturing the acylated compounds of Fornogaster, and the mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capimula I, a secondary amine of the Formula tata), the house fly (Musca domestica), as well as mos- R R CH C z N VIII wherein Z Z and R R have the meaning given in quitoes, e.g. Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi.

Formula I, is reacted in known fashion with an acylat- Further important pest insects are for example:

ing agent, for example a carboxylic acid, carboxylic Tineola biselliella, and Carpocapsa pomorzella.

acid anhydride or carboxylic acid halide, optionally in Of particular mention under pest insects are stored the presence of a base. product pests, of which the following are to be noted Finally, in the above described fashion, the selective as exemplary. They are all important stored product epoxidation can be carried with 1 mole of a peracid in pests:

an inert solvent medium such as a halogenated hydro- Oryzaephilus surinamensis carbon, preferably with cooling. Trogoderma granarium The introduction of the epoxy group into the acyl- Lasioderma sericorne ated amines can, apart from with a peracid, take place Chryptolestes ferrugineus also by transfer of the compounds of Formula I Stegobium paniceum (wherein Z and Z together form a carbon carbon Neocrobia ruf bond), with N-bromosuccinimide in a mixture of water Ant r VOW-X with a suitable solvent medium such as tetrahydrofu- Sitaphilus granarius rane, 1,2-dimethoxyethane, dioxane, or with tertiary Sifophilus oryzae butanol in bromohydrin, and the transformation into an Sitophilus Zea a s epoxide of Formula I (wherein Z and Z together form Rhizop r dominica an oxygen bridge) takes place with the aid of a basic re- Acanthoscelides obtectus agent such as an alkali carbonate or an alkali alkoxide. Ephestia kuehniella By alkali, particularly sodium and potassium are to be Araeocerus fasciaslams understood. carpophilus hermipterus The compounds described are prepared as mixtures Teflebfio of the geometrical isomers as result of the synthesis. Trtbolrum castaneum The starting materials of Formula VI to VIII are known Trlbolmm destructor compounds which can be manufactured by known Tribolium f methods described in the literature. Athagenu-Y P166113 The compounds of Formula I are also suitable for The novel compounds of Formula I give a partial or combatting representatives of the order Acarma such complete inhibition of the growth of insects and representatives of the order Acarina (mites) by means of as 0f the famllles lxodldae; Afgasldae; Tetranychldae;

Dermanyssidae.

which a transition from one development stage into the next is to be understood. In the case of a development The compound-S of f I can be used transition on th E b i to the Larva] Stage and together with suitable carriers and/or other additive from the Pupa or last Larval into the imaginal stage, the mateflalscontact with an effective quantity of the compound of Sultable Gamers and addmves can solld q the invention in the first stage inhibits the transition to and P to the customary mate-T1315 used the next stage of development, whereon the insects eimulatlon teclmlques as for p natuffll ther remain in their development stage at the time or generated rllmeralvmateflalsr P P dlsperslon die. The compounds are also effective as ovicides. The adheswe, thckenmg blfldlflg and compostmg compounds according to the invention are exceptionagents- Furthermore, f f blocldal compounds can ally acti d can b used i very Small doses f be added thereto. Such biocidal compounds can be, for to 10- grams per insect example, from the class of ureas, saturated or unsaturated halo fatty acids, halobenzonitriles, halobenzoic acids, phenoxyalkyl carboxylic acids, carbamates, triazines, nitroalkylphenols, organic phosphorus compounds, quaternary ammonium salts, sulfaminic acids, arsenates, arsenites, borates, and chlorates.

The compounds according to the invention may be used, for example, against all pest insects such as aphids, such as the peach potato aphid (Myzus persicae), the black bean aphid (Aphisfabae); Scale insects For the purposes of application the compounds of the Formula I can be treated to form dusting agents, emulsion concentrates, granulates, dispersions, sprays, solutions or slurries in customary formulation, which is all part of the general knowledge of application techniques.

For the manufacture of directly s prayable solution for compounds of Formula I, there should be noted particularly mineral oil fractions of high to average boiling range, such as diesel oil or kerosene, coal tar oils and oils of vegetable or animal origin, together with hydrocarbons such as alkylated naphthalene, tetrahydronaphthalene, optionally with the use of xylene mixtures, cyclohexane, ketones, and furthermore chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as trichlorethane and tetrachlorethane, trichlorethylene or triand tetrachlorobenzenes. It is advantageous to' use organic solvent media the boiling point of which is over 100C.

Aqueous preparations are particularly suitable as emulsion concentrates, pastes or wettable, sprayable powders which are prepared for use-by the addition of water. As dispersing agents there should be noted the non-ionogenic products, e.g. condensation products of aliphatic alcohols, amines or carboxylic acids with a long chain hydrocarbon group from about to carbon atoms and ethylene oxide, such as the condensation product of octadecyl alcohol and to mols of ethylene oxide, or that of soya fatty acids and 30 mol ethylene oxide, or that of technical oleyl amine and 15 mol ethylene oxide or that of dodecylmercaptan and 12 mol ethylene oxide. Under anion active dispersing agents which can be used there should be mentioned for example, the sodium salt of dodecyl alcohol sulfuric acid ester, the sodium salt of dodecylbenzenesulphonic acid, the potassium or triethanolamine salts of oleic acid or abietic acid or mixtures of these acids or the sodium salt of a petroleum sulfonic acid. As cation active dispersing agents, there can be used quaternary ammonium compounds such as cetylpyridiumbromide or dioxyethylbenzyldodecyl ammonium chloride.

In the manufacture of dusting and spreading agents, there can be used as solid carrier materials talcum, kaolin, bentonite, calcium carbonate, and even coal, cork flour, wood flour, and other materials of vegetable origin. Particularly useful is the manufacture of preparations in granulated form. The various application forms can include in known fashion of material which improve the distribution, the adherence, the rain resistance or the impregnation ability thereof; such materials are for example fatty acids, resins, glues, casein, or alginates.

The following Examples will serve to illustrate the invention:

EXAMPLE 1 A mixture of 22 g l-bromo-3,7,l1-trimethyl-2,6,l0- dodecatriene and 20 ml diethylether was added dropwise at about -4C within one hour to 22g of freshly distilled diallylamine. The mixture was then stirred for 1 hour at 0C and 20 hours at room temperature. After dilution with diethylether the reaction mixture was first washed three times with 40 ml of 20% aqueous caustic potash and then several times with water. The ether so lution of the tertiary base was dried over sodium sulfate, the solvent removed under vacuum and the remaining N,N-diallyl-3 7 ,1 l-trimethyl-2,6, l 0- dodecatrienylamine distilled under high vacuum. B.Pt. l23- -124C/O.01 Torr; n 1.4896.

EXAMPLE 2 A mixture of 14.3 g 1-bromo-3,7,l l-trimethyl- 2,6,l0-dodecatriene and 10 ml diethylether was added dropwise within an hour with stirring at 0C to 20 g of di-(2-chloroallyl)amine. The mixture was then stirred for 20 hours at room temperature. The reaction mixture was then treated as noted in Example 1 and the N,- N-di-( 2-chloroallyl)-3 ,7 ,l 1-trimethyl-2,6, l 0- dodecatrienylamine remaining was purified by chromatography on aluminium oxide, (elutriation agent- :methylacetate: hexane 1:12). n 1.5050.

EXAMPLE 3 At 10l5C., 10 ml of acetic acid anhydride were added dropwise with stirring to 13g of N-allyl-3,7,l1- trimethyl-2, 6,10-dodecatrieny1amine. After 16 hours stirring at room temperature the excess acetic acid anhydride was taken up in 100 ml water, with ice cooling, and the reaction mixture extracted with ether-n-hexane 1:1. The purified ether-hexane phases were washed neutral with saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution. Then, after twice washing with a little water, the mixture was dried over sodium sulfate and the solvent distilled off in vacuo. The remaining N-acetyl-N-allyl- 3,7,1 l-trimethyl-2,6, l0-dodecatrienylamine was purified by chromatography on silica gel with methyl acetate-n-hexane (2:3). n 1.4968.

EXAMPLE 4 At 0C, 1.6 ml of trifluoroacetic acid were added to 6.03 g N,N-diallyl-3 ,7,l 1-trimethyl-2,6, l 0- drying the organic phase over sodium sulfate, the solvent was distilled off and the product chromatographically purified on aluminum oxide (activity Ill) (elutriation agent diethylether-n-hexane, 1:9), by means of which colorless N,N-diallyl-l0,1 l-epoxy-3,7,l 1- trimethyl-2, 6-dodecadienylamine is obtained. n 1.4847.

EXAMPLE 5 A solution of 5.9 g 86% m-chloroperbenzoic acid in 40 ml dichloromethane-diethyl ether (9:1) was added dropwise with stirring within 3 hours at 2 to 0C to 8.8 g N-acetyl-N-allyl-3,7,l l-trimethyl-2,6,10-

dodecatrienylamine in 90 ml of dichloromethane. After a further 24 hours stirring at 02C, the reaction mixture was diluted with n-hexane, washed thrice at 0C with 30 ml 10% aqueous caustic potash andthen with water. After drying the organic phase over sodium sulfate, the solvent was distilled off and the product purified chromatographically on silica gel (activity Ill) (elutriation agent, methyl acetate: n-hexane 1:2), by means of which colorless N-acetyl-N-allyl-IO, l lepoxy-3 ,7 ,1 1-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienylamine was obtained. n 1.4820.

The following compounds can also be prepared in a manner analogous to that given in Examples l-5.

R u Z Z2 n B.Pt. (c)= co-ca CH2 I -c-c- 1,5038

co -ca CH2 /CH2"CH CH2 -N\ -cc- 7 1,4899 109 11o/o,o1 Torr CHZ-CH CH2 c n CH CH3 EXAMPLE 6 trimethyl-2,6,lO-dodecatrienylamine was purified by chromatography on silica gel with methyl acetate-nhexane (2L3), n 1.4925.

EXAMPLE 7 At 0C, 1.6 ml of trifluoroacetic acid were added to 6.03 g N-formyl, N-ethyl-3,7,l l-trimethyl-2,6,l0- dodecatrienylamine in 60 ml dichloromethane, and then a solution of 4.1 g 86% m-chloroperbenzoic acid in 30 ml dichloromethane, diethylether (9:1) was added dropwise with stirring within 4 hours. After 10 hours stirring at 05C, the reaction mixture was diluted with hexane, washed thrice with 30 ml of 10% aqueous caustic potash and then washed neutral with water. After drying the organic phase over sodium sulfate, the solvent was distilled off and the product chromatographically purified on aluminum oxide (Activity 111) (elutriation agent diethylether-n-hexane, 1:9), by

means of which colorless N-formyl, N-ethyl-lO-llepoxy-3,7,1l-trimethyl-Z,6-dodecadienylamine is obtained.

EXAMPLE 8 A solution of 5.9g 86% m-chloroperbenzoic acid in 40 ml dichloromethane-diethyl ether (9:1) was added dropwise with stirring within 3 hours at 2 to C to 8.8 g N-acetyl-N-ethyl-3,7-dimethyl-ll-ethyl-2,6,l0- dodecatrienylamine in 90 ml of dichloromethane. After a further 24 hours stirring at 0-2C, the reaction mixture was diluted with n-hexane, washed thrice at 0C with 30 ml 10% aqueous caustic potash and then with water. After drying the organic phase over sodium sulfate, the solvent was distilled off and the product purified chromatographically on silica gel (Activity 11]) (elutriation agent methyl acetate n-hexane 1:2), by means of which colorless N-acetyl-N-ethyl-l0,l lepoxy-3,7-dirnethyl-l l-ethyl-2,6 dodecadionylamine was obtained.

EXAMPLE 9 Emulsion concentrate Well soluble active agents can be formulated as emulsion concentrates according to the following directions:

C2H5 CH3 CH3 CH3 CH3 CH3 AAA/ CH0 ca 0 f CH 3 i 3 20 parts active agent parts xylene 10 parts of a mixture of a reaction product of an alkyl phenol with ethylene oxide and calcium dodecylbenzene sulfonate are mixed together. On diluting with water to the desired degree, a sprayable emulsion results. Granulates 7.5 g of an active substance according to formula I are dissolved in ml acetone, and the acetonic solution so obtained added to 92 g granulated attapulgite. The whole was well mixed and the solvent removed in a rotary evaporator. A granulate of active agent content about 7.5% is obtained.

EXAMPLE 10 Determination of the biological activity of the compounds of Examples l-3 With the aid of a micro-applicator, solutions of various concentrations of active agent in acetone were applied to I24 hour old pupae of Epitachna varivestis. The so treated pupae were kept at 25C. until the pupal skin was shed, which normally takes 5-6 days. After this time, the following effects of the treatment on the test animals could be determined: the animals were dead or showed positive symptoms; a treatment was considered negative if morphological changes could be determined on neither the treated animals nor on animals from the eggs of the treated animals. Classified as positive, as well as the'dead, were all adultoid intermediate forms, which still showed definite features of the pupal stage.

In comparison with untreated control animals, no delay in emergence arose with the treated pupae. 10 animals were treated per concentration of active agent. The inhibiting action of compounds of the following formulae were evaluated in micrograms per pupal from the numbers of dead and positive reacting test animals:

1, liq/p p COCZH Z S 4 9 ug/pupa 7 l q/P p CHO 0, vg/p p 13 14 What is claimed is: R is C -C alkyl or C -C alkenyl, and l. A mp n f h f rm l R and R are each methyl or ethyl.

R4 R CH3 v H C Z l wherein 2. A compound according to claim 1 of the formula:

2 5 3 3 IM/\AM COCH Z and Z together form an oxygen bridge, 3. A compound according to claim 1 of the formula:

y CH CH CH R isacyl,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION PATENT NO. 1 3,884,941

DATED May 20, 1975 INVENTOR(S) I Friedrich Karrer It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

Item [30] line 3: delete "June 26, 1970" and in lieu thereof insert October 8, 1970 Signed and Sealed this third Day Of February 1976 [SEAL] A ttes t:

RUTH C. MASON C. MARSHALL DANN Arresting Officer Commissioner ofPatents and Trademarks 

1. A COMPOUND OF THE FORMMULA:
 2. A compound according to claim 1 of the formula:
 3. A compound according to claim 1 of the formula: 